Mobile identity management system in heterogeneous wireless networks

Abstract

Heterogeneous wireless networks increasingly encroach on our lives. Various technologies
and mobile applications more often than usual are now used by mobile users. Intensive
development of mobile networks not only sets new standards for radio, but increasingly focuses
on providing security for traffic transmitted in wireless networks. Security in wireless networks
has never been the primary objective of the designers of new network standards. The reason
for this fact were both low hardware resources of equipment, but also lack of awareness of users
about the potential vulnerabilities. Creating a secure, independent of network architecture
solutions effectively raising the level of security of transmitted data between end users is
the main priority of our research. Current wireless security solutions do not provide sufficient
protection of the integrity, confidentiality of data, are not designed to operate in heterogeneous
networks, or are too complex to implement. Both networks WiMAX, LTE and WiFi, there are
methods that protect the resources in these networks, but they are not consistent with each
other. The proposed security system requires the use of mobile version of the PKI to verify the
identity of mobile users. Mobile PKI center is an innovative solution, not yet introduced for
casual use. Such a solution in heterogeneous wireless networks is a fast, secure and transparent
to transmission medium. Designing secure and efficient authentication protocols to enable